pleader's

[46] Concerning the pleader's salary, says the Mirror, chap. 2, sec.

An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition George Sharswood

The object was certainly to do me service by saving money, since, if I selected the bar as my profession, it was contended by some persons, (misinformed, however,) that not Oxford, but a special pleader's office, would be my proper destination; but I cared not for arguments of that sort.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

His after-discipline in the special pleader's office, and at the bar, carried on the scheme of his education with unbroken uniformity.

The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

Here it may, perhaps, be worth while to quote again from Lord Penzance's book as to the suggestion that Shakespeare had somehow or other managed "to acquire a perfect familiarity with legal principles, and an accurate and ready use of the technical terms and phrases, not only of the conveyancer's voice, but of the pleader's chambers and the courts at Westminster."

Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909

There may or may not be some fallacy lurking here, but it must not be supposed that this sentence came from a pleader's ingenuity.

Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

Upon the pleader's stand clamber his five young children clad in black mourning garments.

A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903

Strange words these to fall from a pleader's lips in the dusty atmosphere of the praetor's court!

Latin Literature 1902

My District's worked by some man at Darjiling, on the strength of a native pleader's false reports.

Under the Deodars Rudyard Kipling 1900

Like the blow of a hammer, continually repeated until the iron bar crumbles beneath it, his whole force comes with ceaseless percussion on that one mind till it has yielded, and accepts the conviction on which the pleader's purpose is fixed.

How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Orison Swett Marden 1887

And then the Judge, looking up, saw -- what no one else in the court had seen -- that the Colonel was sincere and in earnest; that what he had conceived to be the pleader's most perfect acting and most elaborate irony were the deep, serious, mirthless CONVICTIONS of a man without the least sense of humor.

Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte 1869